Shane Ewen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shane Ewen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shane |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewen |
| SIGNATURE | EWEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0229-6602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Why don’t you…’: R.J. Morris and the European Association for Urban History
Bob Morris was elected as president of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) ahead of its 2002 conference in Edinburgh. Bob’s presidency, and the Edinburgh conference specifically, took place at an important point in the development of urban history within Europe and further afield. First, the programme reveals several emerging themes and topics of interest that have since shaped the sub-field in new and innovative ways. Second, Bob’s…
R.J. Morris: An Appreciation – Introduction to Special Section
The essays that follow aim to capture aspects of the unique style of R.J. Morris, aspects which taken together represent the formidable legacy that he leaves to the global world of urban history
Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: Movement, gender, biological time and the city
Modern British ambulance originated during the late 1800s in the country's metropolitan areas. The fast-urbanising cities of Glasgow and London recognised that biological-temporal need required the time between injury and specialist care to compress. This was nowhere more urgent than in the large number of burn injuries that occurred in the cities' homes and workplaces. In tracing the origins and choreography of ambulance -a set of skills; a body…
Lessons from a Forgotten Disaster: The Queen Victoria Street Fire, 1902
On 9 June 1902, a fire at the General Electric Company offices in Queen Victoria Street led to the deaths of ten employees, including nine young women aged between 14 and 18. A coroner’s inquest was immediately organized to ascertain the cause of death and a number of witnesses were called to give evidence. This article explores the evidence gathered at the inquest, focusing on the testimony of four witnesses: the spectator, employee, survivor an…
The media, affect, and community in a decade of disasters: Reporting the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire
This article examines the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire through the coverage of the national, local, and specialist print and broadcast media. Drawing upon extensive media coverage, it argues that the reporting of the fire provides a useful lens through which to understand the emotional environment and construction of communities during Britain’s ‘decade of disasters’. Moreover, archival sources have been consulted to reveal the multiplicity of…
S imon G unn and S usan C. T ownsend . Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
Simon Gunn’s and Susan C. Townsend’s Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is an excellent comparative history of how and why mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Great Britain during the twentieth century as well as its persistence at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a collaborative exercise over more than a decade, the book benefits from the authors’ respective expertise and enthusiasm for the subjec…
Introduction: Urban history beyond the academy
Since the emergence of urban history as a sub-discipline in the 1960s, urban historians have recognized the importance of engaging with non-academic communities in order both to disseminate research and respond to contemporary issues of urban life. 1 The research of the urban historian today is more readily received, to a greater or lesser extent, as a resource in the knowledge exchange between academics and local authority planning departments, …
Sheffield's Great Flood of 1864: Engineering Failure and the Municipalisation of Water
Recent scholarly research at the intersection of the histories of technology and the built environment has revealed many tensions surrounding the design, building and management of major socio-technologies like urban waterworks. There remains much scope for research into the interdependence of socio-technological systems, engineering knowledge and the political and commercial agendas of municipal governments and private water suppliers respective…
Socio-technological disasters and engineering expertise in Victorian Britain: The Holmfirth and Sheffield floods of 1852 and 1864
Fighting Fires: Creating the British Fire Service, 1800-1978
The first full-length scholarly history of the British fire service, 1800-1978, this book scrutinizes how firemen created a professional public service incumbent upon municipal government. It examines
Entries
Chief officers and professional identities: The case of fire services in English municipal government, c.1870?1938
This article examines the changing relationship between chief officers and English municipal government between the eighteen-seventies and the nineteen-thirties, focusing specifically on the emergence of a new cadre of municipal experts, the chief fire officers. The article locates the chief officer within debates about the changing role and status of professional elites, and continues a long tradition of urban historical research through the com…
Preparing the British Fire Service for War: Local Government, Nationalisation and Evolutionary Reform, 1935–41
The nationalisation of the British fire service in 1941 has conventionally been interpreted as an administrative revolution by contemporaries and historians alike. The destructive ferocity of the Blitz, particularly its concentration on London and major provincial cities, was indeed the catalyst for major restructuring, highlighting serious inadequacies in the effectiveness of local fire protection. However, the decision taken by Herbert Morrison…
Managing Police Constables and Firefighters: Uniformed Public Services in English Cities, c.1870–1930
Using a variety of archival sources, notably personnel records and municipal minute books, this article builds a picture of the work-life histories of rank-and-file police constables and firefighters in the English cities of Birmingham and Leicester, and contrasts the techniques of behavioural control adopted by their employers. By drawing on an expanding literature on the social history of public institutions, the article compares the experience…
The internationalization of fire protection: In pursuit of municipal networks in Edwardian Birmingham
Through a case study of Birmingham fire brigade, this article examines the plethora of international networking activities undertaken during the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Birmingham fire brigade, under the control of Alfred Tozer, led British municipal participation in early international fire networks, attending international congresses and exhibitions in Berlin and London, and also visiting continental cities to inspect fire br…
Eating smoke: Fire in urban America, 1800-1950
Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
Managing Police Constables and Firefighters: Uniformed Public Services in English Cities, c.1870–1930
Using a variety of archival sources, notably personnel records and municipal minute books, this article builds a picture of the work-life histories of rank-and-file police constables and firefighters in the English cities of Birmingham and Leicester, and contrasts the techniques of behavioural control adopted by their employers. By drawing on an expanding literature on the social history of public institutions, the article compares the experience…
The internationalization of fire protection: In pursuit of municipal networks in Edwardian Birmingham
Through a case study of Birmingham fire brigade, this article examines the plethora of international networking activities undertaken during the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Birmingham fire brigade, under the control of Alfred Tozer, led British municipal participation in early international fire networks, attending international congresses and exhibitions in Berlin and London, and also visiting continental cities to inspect fire br…
Socio-technological disasters and engineering expertise in Victorian Britain: The Holmfirth and Sheffield floods of 1852 and 1864
Introduction: Urban history beyond the academy
Since the emergence of urban history as a sub-discipline in the 1960s, urban historians have recognized the importance of engaging with non-academic communities in order both to disseminate research and respond to contemporary issues of urban life. 1 The research of the urban historian today is more readily received, to a greater or lesser extent, as a resource in the knowledge exchange between academics and local authority planning departments, …
Sheffield's Great Flood of 1864: Engineering Failure and the Municipalisation of Water
Recent scholarly research at the intersection of the histories of technology and the built environment has revealed many tensions surrounding the design, building and management of major socio-technologies like urban waterworks. There remains much scope for research into the interdependence of socio-technological systems, engineering knowledge and the political and commercial agendas of municipal governments and private water suppliers respective…
Preparing the British Fire Service for War: Local Government, Nationalisation and Evolutionary Reform, 1935–41
The nationalisation of the British fire service in 1941 has conventionally been interpreted as an administrative revolution by contemporaries and historians alike. The destructive ferocity of the Blitz, particularly its concentration on London and major provincial cities, was indeed the catalyst for major restructuring, highlighting serious inadequacies in the effectiveness of local fire protection. However, the decision taken by Herbert Morrison…
Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850
The internationalization of fire protection: In pursuit of municipal networks in Edwardian Birmingham
Through a case study of Birmingham fire brigade, this article examines the plethora of international networking activities undertaken during the late Victorian and early Edwardian period. Birmingham fire brigade, under the control of Alfred Tozer, led British municipal participation in early international fire networks, attending international congresses and exhibitions in Berlin and London, and also visiting continental cities to inspect fire br…
Eating smoke: Fire in urban America, 1800-1950
Preparing the British Fire Service for War: Local Government, Nationalisation and Evolutionary Reform, 1935–41
The nationalisation of the British fire service in 1941 has conventionally been interpreted as an administrative revolution by contemporaries and historians alike. The destructive ferocity of the Blitz, particularly its concentration on London and major provincial cities, was indeed the catalyst for major restructuring, highlighting serious inadequacies in the effectiveness of local fire protection. However, the decision taken by Herbert Morrison…
Managing Police Constables and Firefighters: Uniformed Public Services in English Cities, c.1870–1930
Using a variety of archival sources, notably personnel records and municipal minute books, this article builds a picture of the work-life histories of rank-and-file police constables and firefighters in the English cities of Birmingham and Leicester, and contrasts the techniques of behavioural control adopted by their employers. By drawing on an expanding literature on the social history of public institutions, the article compares the experience…
Chief officers and professional identities: The case of fire services in English municipal government, c.1870?1938
This article examines the changing relationship between chief officers and English municipal government between the eighteen-seventies and the nineteen-thirties, focusing specifically on the emergence of a new cadre of municipal experts, the chief fire officers. The article locates the chief officer within debates about the changing role and status of professional elites, and continues a long tradition of urban historical research through the com…
Entries
Fighting Fires: Creating the British Fire Service, 1800-1978
The first full-length scholarly history of the British fire service, 1800-1978, this book scrutinizes how firemen created a professional public service incumbent upon municipal government. It examines
Sheffield's Great Flood of 1864: Engineering Failure and the Municipalisation of Water
Recent scholarly research at the intersection of the histories of technology and the built environment has revealed many tensions surrounding the design, building and management of major socio-technologies like urban waterworks. There remains much scope for research into the interdependence of socio-technological systems, engineering knowledge and the political and commercial agendas of municipal governments and private water suppliers respective…
Socio-technological disasters and engineering expertise in Victorian Britain: The Holmfirth and Sheffield floods of 1852 and 1864
Introduction: Urban history beyond the academy
Since the emergence of urban history as a sub-discipline in the 1960s, urban historians have recognized the importance of engaging with non-academic communities in order both to disseminate research and respond to contemporary issues of urban life. 1 The research of the urban historian today is more readily received, to a greater or lesser extent, as a resource in the knowledge exchange between academics and local authority planning departments, …
The media, affect, and community in a decade of disasters: Reporting the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire
This article examines the 1985 Bradford City stadium fire through the coverage of the national, local, and specialist print and broadcast media. Drawing upon extensive media coverage, it argues that the reporting of the fire provides a useful lens through which to understand the emotional environment and construction of communities during Britain’s ‘decade of disasters’. Moreover, archival sources have been consulted to reveal the multiplicity of…
S imon G unn and S usan C. T ownsend . Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
Simon Gunn’s and Susan C. Townsend’s Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is an excellent comparative history of how and why mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Great Britain during the twentieth century as well as its persistence at the turn of the twenty-first century. As a collaborative exercise over more than a decade, the book benefits from the authors’ respective expertise and enthusiasm for the subjec…
Lessons from a Forgotten Disaster: The Queen Victoria Street Fire, 1902
On 9 June 1902, a fire at the General Electric Company offices in Queen Victoria Street led to the deaths of ten employees, including nine young women aged between 14 and 18. A coroner’s inquest was immediately organized to ascertain the cause of death and a number of witnesses were called to give evidence. This article explores the evidence gathered at the inquest, focusing on the testimony of four witnesses: the spectator, employee, survivor an…
Choreographing urban ambulance in Britain, c.1870–1920: Movement, gender, biological time and the city
Modern British ambulance originated during the late 1800s in the country's metropolitan areas. The fast-urbanising cities of Glasgow and London recognised that biological-temporal need required the time between injury and specialist care to compress. This was nowhere more urgent than in the large number of burn injuries that occurred in the cities' homes and workplaces. In tracing the origins and choreography of ambulance -a set of skills; a body…
‘Why don’t you…’: R.J. Morris and the European Association for Urban History
Bob Morris was elected as president of the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) ahead of its 2002 conference in Edinburgh. Bob’s presidency, and the Edinburgh conference specifically, took place at an important point in the development of urban history within Europe and further afield. First, the programme reveals several emerging themes and topics of interest that have since shaped the sub-field in new and innovative ways. Second, Bob’s…
R.J. Morris: An Appreciation – Introduction to Special Section
The essays that follow aim to capture aspects of the unique style of R.J. Morris, aspects which taken together represent the formidable legacy that he leaves to the global world of urban history
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